In hockey they have had suspensions where guys couldn't come back until the player they cheapshotted did. If Lawrence is out for the year, he should be too.
No. I don’t think they’ve ever done that, travdogg. I played hockey up until I was twenty-two pretty ardently and seriously and followed the NHL for a long, long time (more than any other sport) and they never did that. They always said that should be a rule or a method of suspension but it was never undertaken.
In fact, I stopped watching the sport in 2002 because of the lack of punishment for goon crap.
I think it was in the early 2010s where a guy basically rode a players face into the ice, and he was out for a year with a concussion, and the player that did it was out until then. Maybe that was a 1-time thing, but I distinctly remember it.
Oh, was that the Bertuzzi-Steve Moore incident in 2004? That resulted in a suspension and Moore never played again, so that isn’t the case that he was suspended as long as Moore was out. That’s also a violation of the CBA, I believe. Reddit says no. Everything I’m reading says they don’t do that. They never did when I was following it and we used to ask for it.
And they never did. It’s a common lament among fans that they don’t and it’s an unwritten rule in playoff hockey that the league will do that.
But no, bro, I gently think you’re wrong. But today is about football!